Adding existing drives to new proxmox installation

[ctoml09]

I was having trouble with my server not booting, thought the drive was dead turns out it wasn't. I reinstalled proxmox and i have backups of all my vm's on 2 drive but i can cant add my existing drive to the server.
If anyone can help that would be great thank you.

 

[Dunuin]

I was having trouble with my server not booting, thought the drive was dead turns out it wasn't. I reinstalled proxmox and i have backups of all my vm's on 2 drive but i can cant add my existing drive to the server.
If anyone can help that would be great thank you.

You can mount it manually using fstab and add a new storage to PVE pointing to that disk so PVE knows how to use the disk.

 

[ctoml09]

You can mount it manually using fstab and add a new storage to PVE pointing to that disk so PVE knows how to use the disk.

oh thank god, i didnt want to redo all them vw's lol.
now how do i mount them manually. I'm a noob at proxmox and this is the first time ive had trouble

 

[Dunuin]

oh thank god, i didnt want to redo all them vw's lol.
now how do i mount them manually. I'm a noob at proxmox and this is the first time ive had trouble

Like with every other linux. Really depends how the disk was setup in the past. LVM or ZFS or just simple partitions? Ext4 or ntfs or xfs or ... as filesystem? Was the disk part of any kind of software/hardware raid?
So first you should find out how that disk was used/formated. Then you could look for some debian/ubuntu tutorials on how to mount that kind of storage using fstab.

 

[ctoml09]

Like with every other linux. Really depends how the disk was setup in the past. LVM or ZFS or just simple partitions? Ext4 or ntfs or xfs or ... as filesystem? Was the disk part of any kind of software/hardware raid?
So first you should find out how that disk was used/formated. Then you could look for some debian/ubuntu tutorials on how to mount that kind of storage using fstab.

no raid and just ext4 filesystem

 

[kareemtharwat]

no raid and just ext4 filesystem

i have same case waiting for replay.